The culprit behind signs left outside Huntingdon primary schools saying "no more Polish vermin" in the summer has not been found, police have confirmed.

Police began an investigation on June 25 following reports the signs had been distributed in Huntingdon - including outside primary schools - just hours after the result of the EU referendum was announced.

The cards read in full "Leave the EU/No more Polish vermin", with a translation in Polish on the reverse.

But the force has not found the person responsible for them.

A Cambridgeshire police spokesman said: "All enquiries that could be done have been completed".

As previously reported, three or four of the signs were found outside St Peter's School in St Peter's Road, Huntingdon, by a student from Huntingdon.

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He also found them outside Huntingdon Primary School in Ambury Road and Hartford Junior School in Mayfield Crescent.

The cards were reported to the police by the mother of the 11-year-old student who found them.

Another woman said her elderly, disabled mother had found one of the cards on her doorstep.

But just a few days later, the community fought back against the hate with postcards declaring support for immigrants pushed through city letterboxes - and while Huntingdon residents took to the streets with cake to show their stance.

Maciej Pawlikowski and his girlfriend Svetlana Javeljeva previously told the News at the time they were stunned to find a welcoming postcard at their Cambridge home.

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According to police, the number of hate crimes reported to them in Cambridgeshire more than doubled in the week following the EU referendum - and continued to rise nearly two months afterwards.

Figures from the county force show there were 37 hate crimes reported to the force in the week of June 24 to June 30, up from 17 in the seven days before. The number was also higher than the 17 crimes reported in the same week in 2015.

Data shows there were 92 hate crimes altogether in June and 107 in July this year compared with 70 in April and 79 in May.

The amount of hate crimes in June and July are double the amount reported to the police last year with 46 and 58 respectively and 51 in August.